Examples of nominal measures are: A. Gender B. Religious affiliation C. Birth place D. Social classes E. Intellectual sophistication Choose thecorrectanswer from the options given below:
A, B and C only
A, B and C are nominal measures: gender, religious affiliation and birthplace classify people into categories without an inherent rank. Social class and levels of intellectual sophistication imply an ordering in this question.
Important Questions from Research methodology - Teaching
Select the correct statement/s
A. Quantitative approach - Post-positivist worldview, experimental strategy of enquiry and pre and posttest measures of attitudes
B. Qualitative approach - Constructivist worldview, ethnographic design and observation of behaviour
C. Qualitative approach - Pariticipatory worldview, narrative design and open-ended interviewing
D. Mixed method approach - Pragmatic worldview, collection of both qualitative and quantitative data sequentially
E. Qualitative approach - Post-positivist worldview, experimental strategy of inquiry and pre and post-test measures of attitudes
Choose thecorrectanswer from the options given below:
______ is an epistemological position that advocates the application of the methods of natural sciences to the study of social reality and beyond.
A _______ entails the collection of data on more than one case (usually quite a lot more than one) and at a single point in time.
______ is an approach originally developed by Dorothy Smith (1978) to better understand women's everyday experiences by discovering the power relations that shape those experiences.
A. Quantitative research is any research method that involves the analysis of numerical data derived usually from surveys and experiments.
B. Qualitative research is any research method that involves the analysis of numerical data derived usually from surveys and experiments.
C. Inferential statistics does not allow researchers to use data from a relatively small group to speculate with some level of certainty about a larger group.
D. Quantitative research methods do not require statistical methods for collecting and reporting data.
E. Statistics is the mathematical method used to analyze numerical data.
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